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Top 5 Sports Movies Of All Time
http://theconservativecomeback.blogspot.com/ ^ | 2/18/09 | TheConservativeComeback

Posted on 02/18/2009 9:50:28 AM PST by TheConservativeComeback

If you have been reading this blog since its inception one month ago, you know that we like to mix in a lot of sports and movie posts. Today we combine those with our top 5 sports movies of all time.

A couple of rules you should be aware of with our selection process. First, if your favorite sports movie was made in the 40s or 50s...it is not on this list. I'm going to speak the truth right now and say what a lot of people won't say, Pauly Shore would've been a 5 time Oscar winner in the 40s. For the most part the acting was terrible.

Second, being that this list is so short we decided that sports comedies would be put under a different category. So while Slapshot, Major League, and Caddyshack are some of the great movies ever made, they fall under a different list.

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To: TheConservativeComeback

North Dallas Forty was pretty entertaining and Dayle Hadden neekid


21 posted on 02/18/2009 9:57:19 AM PST by wardaddy (I'm for Sarah. Nuff said, you either get it or you don't.)
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To: Drango

I own that one. It is a sleeper for sure!


22 posted on 02/18/2009 9:57:20 AM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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To: TheConservativeComeback
Seabiscuit, Searching for Bobby Fisher, Rocky, Raging Bull, The Natural...
23 posted on 02/18/2009 9:57:26 AM PST by stormer
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To: TheConservativeComeback
Knute Rockne All American.

With the Gipper!

24 posted on 02/18/2009 9:59:03 AM PST by Young Werther (Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
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To: TheConservativeComeback
Pauly Shore would've been a 5 time Oscar winner in the 40s.

What???! "Knute Rockne All-American" Hello?? Win one for the Gipper? It doesn't get any better than that!

25 posted on 02/18/2009 9:59:09 AM PST by scottinoc ("Katie, you're not the center of everyone's universe."-Gov Palin)
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To: LS

I love “Remember The Titans” — and I know absolutely nothing about football.


26 posted on 02/18/2009 9:59:11 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (I feel much better since I gave up hope.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

There are definitely bad actors today but I dont think there is a better sports movie from that era than the 5 that are on the list


27 posted on 02/18/2009 9:59:42 AM PST by TheConservativeComeback
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To: TheConservativeComeback

All the Right Moves.

I had a coach exactly like that one in highschool.


28 posted on 02/18/2009 10:00:07 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: TheConservativeComeback

Breaking Away

(Everybody cheats. Even the Italians.)


29 posted on 02/18/2009 10:00:26 AM PST by RazzPutin ("You have told us more than you can possibly know." -- Niels Bohr)
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To: scottinoc

haha I know Im starting to get a lot of flak for the statement. It was lighthearted. I still dont think Knute Rockne beats the 5 on the list


30 posted on 02/18/2009 10:00:42 AM PST by TheConservativeComeback
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To: TheConservativeComeback

Hoosiers.


31 posted on 02/18/2009 10:01:12 AM PST by mysterio
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To: Badeye

Yeah that was a very good movie. Cant look at the same way though since Tom Cruise went insane


32 posted on 02/18/2009 10:01:38 AM PST by TheConservativeComeback
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To: TheConservativeComeback

I don’t have an arguement with his picks, but would add “Bang the Drum Slowly”, “Tin Cup”, and “Bull Durham”. Though in the last two the parts are greater than the whole. As long as they stayed on the baseball diamond or the golf course they were great.


33 posted on 02/18/2009 10:01:42 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: TheConservativeComeback

all excellent choices, but no place for ‘Slap Shot’?...c’mon!


34 posted on 02/18/2009 10:02:06 AM PST by major_gaff (University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
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To: TheConservativeComeback

I know it is not anywhere in or near the top tier, but I think “The Cutting Edge” about ice skating deserves a mention somewhere.


35 posted on 02/18/2009 10:02:09 AM PST by cvq3842
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To: mysterio

Hoosiers is a classic, no doubt about it


36 posted on 02/18/2009 10:02:30 AM PST by TheConservativeComeback
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To: TheConservativeComeback

Pride of the Yankees


37 posted on 02/18/2009 10:03:09 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weight-lifting sessions each week and...)
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To: major_gaff

I know. Being it was a top 5 I had to cut out sports comedies. That will be a different list. Slap Shot, Major League, and Caddyshack all wouldve been in consideration if sports comedies were allowed


38 posted on 02/18/2009 10:03:42 AM PST by TheConservativeComeback
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To: TheConservativeComeback

‘2) Hoosiers- Even though this was about the 50s , it is probably the most accurate depiction of high school basketball ever made. From the crowds to the locker room atmosphere, it doesn’t get any better than this. Does Gene Hackman make some questionable decisions as coach? Of course. Who would set up a play with 10 seconds left in the championship and not get the ball to Jimmy Chitwood?’

If you ever find yourself in tiny Milan Indiana, don’t say this.

You will be brutally beaten to death, and hung from that water tower in the opening scene...(chuckle)

I was there on business not long after the movie was released and everybody in the town wanted to kill the writers, director, and Gene Hackman for the entirely fraudulent events depicted.

To quote ‘Jimmy’ who is still alive and playing basketball at the new highschool after hours ‘the only thing in that movie that was accurate was the shot that won the state championship’.


39 posted on 02/18/2009 10:03:45 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: TheConservativeComeback

Death Race 2000


40 posted on 02/18/2009 10:03:45 AM PST by bmwcyle (The end is near and this time I mean it. Get right with JESUS NOW!)
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